The pedestrian's record : to which is added a description of the external human form / by James Irvine Lupton and James Money Kyrle Lupton.

  • Lupton, J. Irvine (James Irvine)
Date:
1890
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Credit: The pedestrian's record : to which is added a description of the external human form / by James Irvine Lupton and James Money Kyrle Lupton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    further, and in this particular the training ot the athlete forms no exception. It has often been stated by physiologists that in order to perpetuate health the due balance between waste and supply should be preserved, i.e., that the waste in the animal body should be re-supplied by just sufficient to compensate for the loss, and perhaps for an adult little more than such re-supply is de- manded, but for the young and for not fully developed persons the weight of waste must be compensated for by a greater weight of food ; but, although such is the fact, at the same time, demand and supply must to a great extent regulate a healthy animal system. A man may, so to speak, manufacture his death by daily over- eating or drinking; and, in a similar manner, by too per- petual and violent exertion an athlete may shorten his days. All animal organisms are most “wonderfully and beautifully made ”—hard and soft structures, the one acting on the other, effecting locomotion ; internal tissues, engaged in the functions of digestion and assimilation, and all parts nourished with blood, which is conveyed to every animal tissue by means of numerous arteries and veins which permeate every structure, the fluid within them being distributed throughout the body by a most powerful engine, the heart, which never ceases from the moment of birth to the last instant of life to distribute this vital fluid. The nervous system is the most important of all, for it controls all the others ; without it no special sense could exist, limbs would not move, the heart